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A woman can never be too rich or too thin, but until very, very recently, she could be too powerful, for which - if she wasn't smart enough to... →
When finally I mustered the courage to tell a novelist friend that I was talking to editors about a biography, her reply was, 'Oh, that's... →
How does a woman in authority convey that authority? Is it possible for a woman to rule without sounding shrill? Is it possible for a woman to manage... →
I checked to see if there'd been a really good book published in the last few decades. Then I started with what Cleopatra would have read, asking... →
I don't think there is ever objective biography. Our vision of our subject is always shaped by who we are. So I do, of course, think the... →
I once interviewed David Herbert Donald, the Lincoln historian, and we talked about how one deals with the secondary sources and the previous... →